Centring on Taeko (Ridley), a 27-year-old Tokyo office worker with no significant other and (apparently) not much of a life, the movie jumps back and forth between the present day and Taeko's recollections of her fifth-grade self, triggered by a visit to a rural farm belonging to relatives of her married sister. The only one of the Japanese animation giant's features to have never been released in the United States, the 1991 film is finally getting a showing, with a new English voice cast starring Daisy Ridley and Dev Patel.ĭirected by Isao Takahata ("The Tale of the Princess Kaguya"), the film is a poetic, yet lucidly rendered meditation on memory and maturity. "Only Yesterday" is sometimes referred to as the "lost" Studio Ghibli film.
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